Auburn's spring football game will be greeted with great anticipation. It's the first under new coach Gus Malzahn. And, it marks a step past last year's season of misery as well.

But emotions will stir afterward, when the historic Toomer's Corner Oaks will be rolled for the final time before they are removed.

The trees at Toomer's Oaks Corner will be rolled for the final time after the Auburn spring game on April 20. (AP Photo)

The historic trees, symbolic to Auburn fans everywhere and traditionally decorated with toilet tissue after football victories, will be taken down sometime after the April 20 A-Day game, university officials announced Friday.

The trees withered after 2010's poisoning at the hands of Alabama supporter Harvey Updyke.

Updyke is scheduled to stand trial April 8 on charges of criminal mischief and desecrating a venerable object. He pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect and in January rejected a plea deal that would have required him to spend 13 years in prison.

There was no immediate information on when the trees will be felled.

"The Oaks at Toomer's Corner has been a part of Auburn tradition for generations," said Debbie Shaw, the university's vice president for alumni affairs and executive director of the Auburn Alumni Association. "Their removal will in no way diminish the Auburn Spirit, which has grown even stronger during these past two years."